Reply #20: Bush critics mark inauguration with drinks and vigils

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January 20, 2005

Bush critics mark inauguration with drinks and vigils

By WILLIAM J. KOLE

VIENNA, Austria (AP) - In Geneva, they'll read patriotic poetry. In Vienna, they'll drown their sorrows and plot their revenge. In London, they'll stage a candlelight protest outside the U.S. Embassy.

Across Europe, a land none too friendly to George W. Bush, locals and American expatriates united in their opposition to the U.S. president were marking his inauguration Thursday with some unabashed Bush-bashing.
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Bush's re-election was widely seen as negative for global peace and security in 16 of 21 countries polled in a BBC World Service survey released on the eve of the inauguration. On average across all the countries, 58 per cent called his re-election a negative development; only 26 per cent described it as positive.
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Kerry supporters in Prague planned what they dubbed the "What Might Have Been Inaugural Party," and in Geneva, they were holding a "Counter-Inaugural Dinner" to be kicked off with a reading of the Langston Hughes poem "Let America Be America Again."


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